Coney Island (1940)

★★★★★ · Oh my God! · SuzyQ666 · 2012-06-20

I lived in NYC (Park Slope, Brooklyn)during the 80s until the mid-90s. I had a friend who was a native of Brooklyn, and who knew "where all the interesting/exciting "skeletons" were "buried" in the Borough! To me, a native Californian, viewing these old pictures (and the real thing) of Coney Island were just "beyond the Pale" to me. I never, as a kid, ever had to share my space while sunning or surfing at any of the beautiful Calif. beaches on the Pacific...So, the shots of the crowds in this video made me laugh out loud! So did the guy dancing around with the tiger. There were no animals…

★★★★ · Coney Island · Christine Hennig · 2003-06-30

This newsreel featurette is a real slice of life from the heyday of the amusement park. Usually these kinds of films portray activities that are fun to do but lame to watch. But this one is actually quite fun to watch, perhaps because the old classic amusement park culture has disappeared for the most part. In this film it lives again, and you get to visit the sideshows, complete with freaks (check out the wonderful advertising posters for these shows), ride all kinds of common and bizarre rides, eat traditional Coney Island food such as hot dogs and frozen custard (prices start at 10 cents!)…

★★★★ · One case of good old days definitely being better · Rodger Lodger · 2017-11-26

I went to Coney Is. a lot in the early 1950s when I was around 12 more and less. We should mistrust old timers who are always saying the "old days" were better, but that is sometimes true and for Coney Is. it is triple true with whipped cream and a cherry on top. Some of the architecture dated from the early 1900s (or earlier?), and there were two (2) wax museums. These gave me a love of American history and nostalgia for times I never lived in. Steeplechase was fabulous. One time I went I was accompanied by my mother, who mistakenly wore a dress. When we got off the Steeplechase ride we…